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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
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Basketball Player
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Shanghai
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Ming Yao
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Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!
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I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
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Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
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Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.
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I think I am upsetting the coach.
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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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